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Ironhawk said:
As for me, one interesting thing I have noted about Ulm is that I am buying only one type of infantry. I want to diversify into the other infantries, but I cant because thier high resource costs mean low troop numbers. And with numbers that low I must ensure that all men in the squad have the same speed or they will "run" ahead and be killed and shatter the squad morale.
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Yeah, this is an interesting problem for me with Jotuns and Vaetti as well. They are excellent to mix together, giving 2 Vaetti and 1 Jotun per square. But Jotuns run way ahead unless you start them on the far right of the tactical map.
You might consider buying a cheap militia screen to stall the opponents, so that if the speed different is low, the slower ones have a chance to catch up by the time the enemy eats through the militia to hit your faster units. Other than that, and starting them at the far right, I'm not sure what can be done, but I'll look at the infantry lineup and their speeds...
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Additionally, I think the change to increase the cost of the Black Knight back up to its original 60gp was a mistake. While that makes them a *really* great deal, the truth is that the knights are Ulm's only truly potent weapon given its lack of any useful magic. They need to be a good deal for ulm to have any chance at all in a regular game.
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I should note that you're expanding faster than anyone at this point
But obviously, that may change when you start encountering nations and magic. I've been giving some thought to additional changes to Ulm units, like ingraining elemental and/or magic resistances into the armor, such that Full Plate + Full Helmet units become substantially different (better) than Chain + Helmet units, and more expensive.
Tien Chi and Mictlan: It's unfortunate to hear that you're both encountering problems. That negative scales bug is especially annoying... I'd thought it had been fixed.
Thanks for the suggestions on Tien Chi; Communion as a national spell (and MotW communicants) is probably a good idea, as flight is sort of... bleh. I'll look at Fire Demon stats and weapons precision as well; I've never used them, only the default TC summons. I was underwhelmed with the pig-men, though; very expensive for such a terrible unit.